Sally Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and she has been nominated for a Tony Award and two BAFTA Awards.
Field began her professional career on television, starring in the short-lived comedies Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). In 1976, she garnered critical acclaim for her performance in the miniseries Sybil , for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Her film debut was as an extra in Moon Pilot (1962), but it escalated during the 1970s with starring roles including Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). Her carerfurther expanded during the 1980s, 0fplreceiving the Academy Award for Best Actress for both Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984), and she appeared in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), Absence of Malice (1981), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), Steel Magnolias (1989), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994).
In the 2000s, she returned to television with a recurring role on the NBC medical drama ER , for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 and the following year made her stage debut with Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? . From 2006 to 2011, she portrayed Nora Walker on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters , for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007. She starred as Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she portrayed Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, with the first being her highest grossing release. In 2015, she portrayed the title character in Hello, My Name Is Doris , for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. In 2017, she returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
As a director, Field is known for the television film The Christmas Tree (1996), an episode of the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon , and the feature film Beautiful (2000). In 2014, she vwas presented with a star on the Hollywoody Walk of Fame and in 2019 received the Kennedy Center Honors.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1962 | Moon Pilot | Beatnik Girl In Lineup | Uncredited |
1967 | The Way West | Mercy McBee | |
1976 | Stay Hungry | Mary Tate Farnsworth | |
1977 | Smokey and the Bandit | Carrie "Frog" | |
Heroes | Carol Bell | ||
1978 | The End | Mary Ellen | |
Hooper | Gwen Doyle | ||
1979 | Norma Rae | Norma Rae Webster | Academy Award for Best Actress |
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Celeste Whitman | ||
1980 | Smokey and the Bandit II | Carrie "Frog" | |
1981 | Back Roads | Amy Post | |
Absence of Malice | Megan Carter | ||
1982 | Kiss Me Goodbye | Kay Villano | |
1984 | Places in the Heart | Edna Spalding | Academy Award for Best Actress |
1985 | Murphy's Romance | Emma Moriarty | |
1987 | Surrender | Daisy Morgan | |
1988 | Punchline | Lilah Krytsick | |
1989 | Steel Magnolias | M'Lynn Eatenton | |
1991 | Not Without My Daughter | Betty Mahmoody | |
Soapdish | Celeste Talbert / Maggie | ||
1993 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | Sassy | Voice |
Mrs. Doubtfire | Miranda Hillard | ||
1994 | A Century of Cinema | Herself | Documentary |
Forrest Gump | Mrs. Gump | ||
1996 | Eye for an Eye | Karen McCann | |
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | Sassy | Voice | |
2000 | Where the Heart Is | Mama Lil | |
Beautiful | — | Director | |
2001 | Say It Isn't So | Valdine Wingfield | |
2003 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Victoria Rudd | |
2005 | Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern | Herself | Documentary |
2006 | Two Weeks | Anita Bergman | |
2008 | The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning | Marina Del Rey | Voice |
2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Aunt May Parker | |
Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | Nominated–Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Aunt May Parker | |
2015 | Hello, My Name Is Doris | Doris Miller | |
2017 | Little Evil | Miss Shaylock | |
2019 | National Theatre Live: All My Sons | Kate Keller | Theatrical live presentation of UK stage production |
2022 | Spoiler Alert | Marilyn Cowan | |
2023 | 80 for Brady | Betty |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1965–1966 | Gidget | Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence | Main cast, 32 episodes |
1967 | Hey, Landlord | Bonnie Banner | Recurring role, 4 episodes |
1967–1970 | The Flying Nun | Sister Bertrille / Elsie Ethrington | Main cast, 82 episodes |
1970 | Bracken's World | Jenny Marsh | Episode: "Jenny, Who Bombs Buildings" |
1971–1972 | Alias Smith and Jones | Clementine Hale | Recurring role, 2 episodes |
1971 | Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring | Denise "Dennie" Miller | Television film |
Hitched | Roselle Bridgeman | ||
Marcus Welby, M.D. | Jan Wilkins / June Wilkins | Episode: "I Can Hardly Tell You Apart" | |
Marriage: Year One | Jane Duden | Television film | |
Mongo's Back in Town | Vikki | ||
1972 | Home for the Holidays | Christine "Chris" Morgan | |
1973 | Night Gallery | Irene Evans | Episode: "Whisper" |
1973–1974 | The Girl with Something Extra | Sally Burton | Main cast, 22 episodes |
1976 | Bridger | Jennifer Melford | Television film |
Sybil | Sybil Dorsett | ||
1979 | Carol Burnett & Company | Herself | Episode #1.4 |
1981 | All the Way Home | Mary Follet | Television film (live broadcast of stage production) |
1982 | Lily for President? | Beth Barber | Television special |
1993 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Sally Field/Tony! Toni! Toné!" |
1995 | A Woman of Independent Means | Bess Alcott Steed Garner | Television miniseries, 3 episodes |
1996 | The Larry Sanders Show | Herself | Episode: "Where Is the Love?" |
The Christmas Tree | — | Television film, director and co-writer | |
1997 | King of the Hill | Junie Harper | Voice, episode: "Hilloween" |
Merry Christmas, George Bailey | Mrs. Bailey / Narrator | Television film | |
1998 | Murphy Brown | Kathleen Dubek, Secretary #91 | Episode: "Opus One" |
From the Earth to the Moon | Trudy Cooper | Television miniseries, 1 episode; also director (1 episode) | |
1999 | A Cooler Climate | Iris Prue | Television film |
2000 | David Copperfield | Betsey Trotwood | |
2000–2006 | ER | Maggie Wyczenski | Recurring role, 12 episodes |
2002 | The Court | Justice Kate Nolan | Main cast, 6 episodes |
2006–2011 | Brothers & Sisters | Nora Walker | Main cast, 109 episodes |
2017 | Spielberg | Herself (interview) | Television documentary |
2018 | Maniac | Dr. Greta Mantleray | Television miniseries |
2020 | Dispatches from Elsewhere | Janice Foster | Main cast, 10 episodes [1] |
2022 | Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty | Jessie Buss | Main cast (Season 1), 9 episodes [2] |
The Last Movie Stars | Herself (interview) | 4 episodes |
Year | Title | Role | Theatre |
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1974 | 6 Rms Riv Vu | Ann Miller | Kenley Players, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio |
1979 | Vanities | Mary | Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre, Jupiter, Florida |
2002 | The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Stevie Gray | John Golden Theatre, New York City |
2004 | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield | The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. |
2017 | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield | Belasco Theatre, New York City |
2019 | All My Sons | Kate Keller | The Old Vic, London [3] |
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